Best CO Ski Town To Move Family To? (Aurora, Durango: ski resort, renting)

[r8rfan]

Trust me, if you think Steamboat is too isolated, then you sure don't want to move to Crested Butte!! It's literally the end of the line. There are no roads going north, east, or west out of town. Actually there is a road to the west, but it's closed in the winter.
I grew up in Steamboat. Actually in Clark which is north of there, but went to school in Steamboat. It was a great place to grow up. Steamboat has really grown now. Doesn't even look like the town did way back then.( I graduated in 1981) My wife and two children and I live in Gunnison now and I work in Crested Butte. We don't like it here very much. In fact we are moving back to Missouri at the end of February.

Good luck to you!!

[Shuffler]

I can't believe he said "Wal Mart" and "Target"...isn't that dreck the kind of thing you DON'T want to find in "Ski Country". Wow.

[Katiana]

Are you being sarcastic or what? Even those are not "chi-chi" stores, and Wal Mart has this bad image, the fact is, those stores carry what people need/want for daily living.

[SheridanL]

I think that Glenwood Springs would be just dandy. Great schools...close to the ski towns. Definitely has spas and swimming ( has hot mineral pools).

Also Georgetown is nice. As long as you don't mind driving thru Eisenhower tunnel to get to the ski areas.

[~Blue Sky~]

Originally Posted by Shuffler

I can't believe he said "Wal Mart" and "Target"...isn't that dreck the kind of thing you DON'T want to find in "Ski Country". Wow.

LOL...I agree! OP, Please don't take offense. We live in Grand Lake and thankfully they have not planted one of those eye sores here.

[Shuffler]

Originally Posted by pittnurse70

Are you being sarcastic or what? Even those are not "chi-chi" stores, and Wal Mart has this bad image, the fact is, those stores carry what people need/want for daily living.

I'm being cynical...the truth of the matter is that 'ski country' is becoming an extension of suburbia on the Front Range, for better or worse....mostly worse. Just wait till the forests turn brown and fires rage in the next few years...not quite the reality that people are in search of!

[jazzlover]

Originally Posted by Shuffler

I'm being cynical...the truth of the matter is that 'ski country' is becoming an extension of suburbia on the Front Range, for better or worse....mostly worse. Just wait till the forests turn brown and fires rage in the next few years...not quite the reality that people are in search of!

Then, all of those "don't tread on me," "don't tell me what I can do with my land," "I have a right to build wherever I want in the mountains" types will go the federal goverment (that means we taxpayers) with their hand out for money to rebuild their trophy house because they would be "victims."

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Shuffler

I'm being cynical...the truth of the matter is that 'ski country' is becoming an extension of suburbia on the Front Range, for better or worse....mostly worse. Just wait till the forests turn brown and fires rage in the next few years...not quite the reality that people are in search of!

What's that got to do with WalMart or Target?

[ShellKing]

Telluride is a beautiful mountain ski town. But it's a long way to Denver. The nearest town is Montrose, 65 miles away. Montrose has Wal-Mart, Target, HomeDepot, JCPenny, airport. Telluride is expensive. The median home value is $778,00. Only 2,300 population. There is one elem, one middle, one high school and one private school.

But great skiing, biking, hiking!

[jazzlover]

Originally Posted by ShellKing

Telluride is a beautiful mountain ski town. But it's a long way to Denver. The nearest town is Montrose, 65 miles away. Montrose has Wal-Mart, Target, HomeDepot, JCPenny, airport. Telluride is expensive. The median home value is $778,00. Only 2,300 population. There is one elem, one middle, one high school and one private school.

But great skiing, biking, hiking!

Telluride is a beautiful place, but it is the LAST place I would move with a family. "Family friendly" it is not. The "family-type" people I have known from there, several of them old-line natives, have moved elsewhere--Montrose, Grand Junction, Denver--to name a few places. "Family town" and "ski town" are two concepts generally mutually exclusive of one another in the Rockies. Kind of like "ski town" and "drug enforcement" don't fit real well in the same sentence, either.